From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: John Garry <john.g.garry@oracle.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
axboe@kernel.dk, linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] block: Correct comment on bio_alloc_clone()
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:43:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260220154324.GA14632@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26f345ba-9cb6-49ad-89f4-1ce0153fd86c@oracle.com>
On Fri, Feb 20, 2026 at 03:36:41PM +0000, John Garry wrote:
>
> So I can have this:
>
> * Allocate a new bio that is a clone of @bio_src. The caller owns the
> returned
> * bio, but not the actual data it points to, bi_io_vec.
Well, bi_io_vec isn't really the data, but the indirection pointing
to the data. I guess we need to come up with consistent terminology
first before we can make good sense of this.
Allocate a new bio that is a clone of @bio_src. This reuses the bio_vecs
pointed to by @bio_src->bi_io_vec, and clones the iterator pointing to
the current position in it. The caller owns the returned bio, but not
the bio_vecs, and must ensure the bio is freed before the memory
pointed to by @bio_Src->bi_io_vecs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-20 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-20 14:32 [PATCH] block: Correct comment on bio_alloc_clone() John Garry
2026-02-20 15:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2026-02-20 15:36 ` John Garry
2026-02-20 15:43 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2026-02-20 15:55 ` John Garry
2026-02-20 15:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
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